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Peter Berg Is Producing A Feature-Length Documentary About Rihanna
Getty Image After saddling her with some sweet dialogue about fried chicken and how her daddy always tole her the aliens was gon’ come in Battleship, Peter “Join The Army, Motherf*cker” Berg is trying...
View ArticleThe Rock Is All About Deals And Dollars In The First Trailer For HBO’s ‘Ballers’
We saw what Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson looks like in a Miami Dolphins uniform in a quickly-deleted image on his Instagram page, but now we know what he’d look like crushing his opponents on a logo-less...
View Article‘Wild Tales’ filmmaker set to write ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ for Mark Wahlberg
As soon as I walked out of “Wild Tales” at Cannes, I started wondering who the first studio would be to hire the filmmaker to make a big American movie. From just one film, it is clear right away that...
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Peter Berg Went Full Marine Todd Meme Over Caitlyn Jenner’s ESPY
Getty Image Transgender acceptance is an important thing and a good thing, and long overdue, but I completely understand people’s knee-jerk reticence to see the positive in anything associated with the...
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Peter Berg Apologizes For His Caitlyn Jenner Post, But Blames It On The...
Getty Image Look, people, I enjoy defending someone who was on the Kardashians less than anyone, but if you’re going to bash Caitlyn Jenner, don’t act like deliberately using the wrong pronoun means...
View ArticleFrotcast 256: Comic-Con-troversy, ‘Ant-Man,’ And ‘Suicide Squad,’ With Burnsy...
https://filmdrunk.podbean.com/mf/web/krf6us/Frotcast257_LaremyBurnsyOnCryingComic-ConFansAnt-ManSuicideSquad.mp3– Listen on the player above, or download as an mp3 here (right-click, save as)....
View ArticleJohn Goodman Joins The Hunt For The Boston Bombers With Mark Wahlberg In...
As Mark Wahlberg’s account of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, continues to roll in and around Boston, a big name has joined the cast. John Goodman, currently on screen in 10 Cloverfield...
View ArticleMark Wahlberg And Kurt Russell Attempt To Stop Disaster In The Trailer For...
If you like your star-studded action movies based on horrifying environmental disasters that actually happened, then make sure you’re sitting down because Mark Wahlberg has a gift for you. Wednesday...
View Article‘Deepwater Horizon’ looks like the real deal
Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes, and clips and puts it all in perspective. Get off the phone, Mark Wahlberg! Get off the phone! Even if your wife is Kate...
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We Watched Peter Berg Quiz Mark Wahlberg On If He’s King Arthur In The New...
Lionsgate / Getty Image Quite a few odd things happened during this interview, which occurred on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon at the Toronto International Film Festival. First of all, I started...
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Peter Berg Is Still Talking About A Sequel To ‘The Rundown,’ And He Has The...
Getty Image Before Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tried to shed his wrestling nickname, anointed himself “Franchise Viagra,” and helped the Fast and Furious empire become a billion-dollar hitmaker, the...
View Article‘Patriots Day,’ The Peter Berg-Directed Boston Marathon Bombing Movie, Has A...
Like the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, the Boston Marathon bombing is now the subject of a film from director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg. Deepwater Horizon hit theaters six years after the...
View ArticleThe Latest ‘Patriots Day’ Trailer Attempts To Pit Love Against Hate At The...
In the first teaser for director Peter Berg’s new movie about the Boston Marathon bombing, Patriots Day, much of the action (or lack thereof) centered on Mark Wahlberg’s character and the city itself....
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Peter Berg Wants To Spread A Message Of Love With ‘Patriots Day’
Getty Image On Monday afternoon, after a banquet thrown by publicist Peggy Siegal for the film Patriots Day at Manhattan’s Lotos Club, I had the chance to speak briefly with director Peter Berg about...
View Article‘Patriots Day’ Mixes Thrills With An Insidiously Tasteful Endorsement Of...
Peter Berg has done a terrible thing. Not because he’s made a terrible movie — that would’ve been better — but because he’s made a movie just good enough that the valid criticisms of it are inevitably...
View ArticleA Clarification On The Miranda-Free Interrogations, And The ‘High Value...
In my review of Patriots Day yesterday, I discussed a few points of the story that seemed slightly vague or ambiguous in the movie, such as the interrogation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow, Katherine...
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